Description: October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the Clothesline Project display, which takes place in over 500 communities, is a means to raise awareness of the costs of domestic violence and what is needed for its prevention. The Clothesline Project is a display of t-shirts decorated by the survivors and families of victims to serve as a public testimony to the problem of violence against women and to provide an avenue to break the silence that surrounds their experiences.